From left, Brooke Appleton, vice president of public policy for the National Corn Growers Association, moderates a discussion with former Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman; former Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., and former USDA Farm Service Agency Administrator Richard Fordyce recently in Washington, D.C..
Washington, D.C.: Dan Glickman, the Agriculture secretary in the Clinton administration, former Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., and Richard Fordyce of Bethany, the Agriculture Department Farm Service Agency administrator in the Trump administration, all urged the nation’s corn growers to tell the story of agriculture to members of Congress from beyond the farm states and form alliances needed to pass the next farm bill.